oreille

oreille

1. Allative plural form of ori.

From Middle French oreille, from Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws. Cognate with Catalan orella, Galician orella, Portuguese orelha, Italian orecchio, Occitan aurelha, Romanian ureche, and Spanish oreja.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁɛj/

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• Rhymes: -ɛj

oreille f (plural oreilles)

1. ear

• (informal) esgourde, feuille

• oreille absolue
• oreiller
• oreillette

• auriculaire

• “oreille” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris.

oreille f (plural oreilles)

1. ear

• French: oreille

• orêle (continental Normandy)
• ouothelle (Jersey)

From Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris (“ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws.

oreille f (plural oreilles)

1. (Guernsey, anatomy) ear

From Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris. First recorded circa 1050 in the Oxford manuscript of La Chanson de Roland[1].

oreille f (oblique plural oreilles, nominative singular oreille, nominative plural oreilles)

1. ear

• Middle French: oreille
  • French: oreille
• Norman: orêle (continental Normandy), oreille (Guernsey), ouothelle (Jersey)
• Walloon: oraye